Designing a war cheese

Choose a heart herb and a way to work the curd. The heart sets the spell family. The working sets its shape, range and base effect. Tend, Gather, Trace and Relay help friends. The other workings attack enemies.

The heart herb must suit the press location or the culture in your curd. A matching specialised culture lets you use its family elsewhere. Arcane Rennet accepts every heart family.

A custom recipe uses two heart herbs, plus one herb for each rind working. You can bind up to three rind workings. Study an herb in the Notebook first to use it in the rind. Each study consumes three specimens.

Each rind working has a trigger and a condition. Link triggers need Thread for an attacking wheel, or Relay for a support wheel. Duplicate workings with the same effect, trigger and condition are refused.

Rind workings unlock in order as the wheel ages. They also increase its Manna cost and cooldown. A Fresh wheel can be useful straight away, even when later workings are still locked.